PC Kills American troops: More than 100 unarmed already murdered by Muslim 'friends'

By
Arnold Ahlert

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As I said in a previous column, one could be forgiven for believing
that political correctness is only one step removed from insanity.
Unfortunately, as the latest report from Afghanistan reveals, it can
also be deadly.

Last week, in a move the Obama administration would
undoubtedly like their useful idiot buddies in the media to ignore as
much as possible, a long-standing order was reversed: U.S. troops are
now required to carry loaded weapons at all times while on base.

In other words, prior to this new directive, troops were required to
remove the magazines from their weapons while quartered at bases with
Afghans they were training to become policemen and soldiers. Policemen
and soldiers who will allegedly pick up the slack and defend their
country after U.S. forces withdraw in 2014--as they are currently
scheduled to do.

Why the change? Apparently it took more than 100 deaths for a military
brass neck-deep in the PC swamp to figure out that the presence of
armed Afghan trainees in the presence of unarmed American trainers
gave our so-called "trusted Afghan partners" a decided tactical
advantage. One they deployed with Islamist gusto on several occasions.
In 2012 alone, 32 attacks resulting in 40 deaths have
occurred--topping the 21 attacks that took place last year.

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That means the 21 attacks a year ago was apparently deemed
insufficient to abandon this particular plank of our so-called
counter-insurgency strategy, more familiarly known as the attempt to
"win the hearts and minds" of the Afghan people. "If the people are
against us, we cannot be successful. If the people view us as
occupiers and the enemy, we can't be successful and our casualties
will go up dramatically," Gen. Stanley McChrystal told CBS's "60
Minutes" back in 2009.

That would be the same Gen. McChrystal fired by Obama in 2010 for
insubordination. McChrystal was replaced by Gen. David Petraeus, who
came in and ordered all NATO troops under his command to pursue the
enemy relentlessly--even as he stressed the need to "reduce civilian
casualties to an absolute minimum." Petraeus further contended that
the alliance "cannot kill or capture our way to victory."

Dying at the hands of so-called allies isn't likely to do the trick
either, General.

Yet up until last week, U.S. commanders insisted that what are
referred to as green-on-blue attacks were nothing more than "isolated"
events. This gave them enough cover to continue allowing our troops to
be gunned down by members of Afghan military units located right
alongside our soldiers on coalition bases.

Yet it gets even worse. Since the Pentagon is drawing down another
30,000 troops this summer, many of the soldiers remaining behind will
go from fighting to training and advising their Afghan "friends."
Friends who, unbelievable as it sounds, will also be tasked with the
fox-guarding-the-henhouse opportunity of providing security at
coalition bases, so president Obama can further reduce the size of
America's military presence in the nation.

Apparently it hasn't occurred to the perpetrators of this nonsense
that such an arrangement makes our troops even more vulnerable to
insider attacks.

To paraphrase from my previous column, on the subject of political
correctness, let me tell you what the war in Afghanistan isn't about.
In short, it isn't about letting the American men and women we put in
harm's way achieve the only thing that makes risking one's life
worthwhile: victory. Victory so decisive and so thorough that not only
is the enemy's capacity to wage war destroyed, but their will to go on
is also broken. Victory so unambiguous that the bad actors all over
the planet will think twice about engaging the most lethal fighting
force ever devised.

Now let me tell what this war is about. It's about pretending we're
going to bring Jeffersonian democracy to a bunch of Third World
hillbillies who make the Beverley Hillbillies look like Rhodes
scholars by comparison. It's about handing the Taliban a due date for
their reemergence in 2014, all the talk about "events on the ground"
notwithstanding. And up until last week, it was all about making
American sons and daughters sitting ducks in one of the most
contemptible capitulations to the PC mindset ever devised.

In a better world, every hack lawyer in the Defense Department, along
with the military and civilian officials responsible for formulating
this strategy would be handed a helmet, a backpack, and a gun,
whereupon they would be sent to the front lines and forced to
implement their handiwork firsthand. Let them work alongside their
Afghan "partners" and set about "winning hearts and minds"--under the
same unarmed conditions to which they were more than willing to
subject our troops.

Those who believe in politically correct warfare deserve nothing less.

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